Appeals court rules against sex offender

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Staff Report Updated 11:42 AM Tuesday, November 3, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — The Twelfth District Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision of the Butler County Common Pleas Court dismissing the petition of a man who challenged his sex offender status.

The appeals court announced this morning it ruled against Ryan Albert Roy’s disputing his sex offender reclassification under Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act.

In 1997, Roy was convicted in Butler County of attempted rape and complicity to rape, and was found to be a sex offender, according to the appeals court.

In March 2008, while incarcerated in the London Correctional Institution in Madison County, Roy received written notice from the Ohio attorney general informing him that under the Adam Walsh Act, he had been reclassified to a Tier III sex offender.

In April 2008, Roy filed a petition in common pleas court challenging his reclassification, according to the appeals court. The state filed a motion to dismiss Roy’s petition. In February 2009, the court dismissed the petition, according to the appeals court.

On appeal, Roy argued that the court erred in dismissing his petition. Yet the appeals court ruled Roy was required to file his petition in Madison County, where he was residing in prison, and not in Butler County, where he had been sentenced and found to be a sex offender.

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